The old NES game Blaster Master had a great bug that made the game a lot easier. If you shot an enemy, and paused right as your bullet was hitting him, it would continuously drain his health until the game was unpaused. Instant kill.
Be careful though, because the same thing happens to you if you're the one being hit.
Always listened to metal as a kid; I consider myself fairly smart. Word of advice to other kids though: Lots of the dumb metalheads do drugs too. Stay out of that stuff. I saw too many smart kids turn into retards and almost did it myself.
"Now I was baffled. 'Records never came with any such restrictions,' I said."
Last time I tried to play my record in a CD player.... that didn't go so well.
Next time, RTFM before buying the stuff and see if it will play in your equipment or not.
I was a little perturbed when GTA: San Andreas brought out a black protagonist. Not because I'm racist or anything, but because the game had previously centered around white Mafiosos. A black character brought all sorts of racial stereotypes with him, which had to be incorporated in the game. I was afraid the game would involve more street-gang type crime, instead of the grandiose organized crime that you saw in the previous games. In the end, they did a good job of fusing the two together though.
I hated it when professors would mandate that you couldn't have any sources from "The Internet", or had to have so many that were from "real books". Get with the times people. Sure, you could argue that "The Internet" as a whole is not reliable because crackpots can post their own web page. But is "printed media" as a whole any better? It's about judging the validity of an individual source, but these idiots didn't realize that "The Internet" wasn't one big source.
In the case of Wikipedia, however, I have to agree that it shouldn't be directly cited. It's a frequently changing page which will allow for some inaccuracies. While the overall community tries their best to moderate it, it's feasible that some BS might make its way out there just long enough for a student to cite it in his paper.
Any good Wikipediaer will cite sources for the information he's putting up there, so the student might as well follow the link and quote the other source if it's reputable.
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People are too eager to believe that the election was rigged, but they're simply outraged at the possibility that the exit polls could have been botched or rigged themselves.
When I applied for a job with the NSA, I pulled my credit report a few days later and there was some vague item on there that basically said "Federal Investigation". I hope it didn't get mistaken for a criminal investigation.
In general I agree with you, but I take exception to your statement that there's no such thing as a tailgater. It's a common phenomenon that some assclown gets in the left lane and drives 20mph, so a long line of cars forms behind him. If that's the case, DO NOT tailgate the guy in front of you unless you're second in line.
My general rule is that I make it obvious that I want to pass, then I wait for the guy to reach a spot. Once he has room to get in the right lane, I give him 5 seconds before either I tailgate him, or pass him on the right if I can. I shouldn't have to resort to either of those.
Also, if you're not the second guy in line, don't try to pass anybody on the right. I love it when the left lane is getting cock blocked and some idiot tries to fly around the right lane and squeeze his way in two cars down from where he was before. That makes the problem worse.
PassPet is a nifty looking extension that hasn't actually been developed. Would help with this problem, as you have to actually click a button to fill in your password.
The Internet's been instrumental in allowing people to jump to crazy conclusions, or just spread lies to eager masses.
I'm hoping people will start to realize this and things will calm down, but there will always be immature teenagers, and as long as the Internet gives them a voice as loud as responsible adults get, we'll see this kind of stuff.
The part we should be truly offended about is that this sort of thing works. People watch their local news, and say "gee, if Asian Reporter Trisha Takinowa says global warming is horseshit, it must be!"
I don't see anything wrong with bias in the news, so long as all the facts are presented.
Best advice to students is to not do anything stupid that would prevent them from working for the government. Those jobs ain't getting outsourced anytime soon.
Signatures are just as worthless as click-through eulas are. It takes an expert to forge them, but it's easy to do once you have some training. We need to start digitally signing our important documents instead of relying on antiquated methods. We might as well pour hot wax on a document and stamp it.
I've been thinking of coming up with an algorithm to write my signature differently depending on the date and time I'm signing it.
Then again, I had the DMV reject my signature one time because it wasn't in cursive, so I doubt I'd get away with that plan.
I've always thought that some story-intensive games might make good movies. Games like Halo, Doom, and Mario just don't have a dynamic enough plot. But you might be able to do it with games like Deus Ex, or Metal Gear (which has enough cut scenes that it might as well be a movie).
Important thing with those would be to stay true to the storyline, and don't try to bring video game elements into it (like when Doom would do first-person view, Resident Evil had a boss fight).
A movie where Solid Snake and a partner have to accomplish some mission would be a decent spy movie, except it'd be hard to make it a standalone movie, since there's so much story in the games now.
I've found a lot of use for dual screens at my work. There will be times when I'm reproducing some issue and need to tail several log files at once until I see what I like. Lots of other times I'll be working with two documents. One per monitor. I also code in one monitor, with specs/IMs in the other.
I think dual monitors are beneficial over one big monitor in this case because it allows me to compartmentalize various tasks. Also there's something about maximizing a window. I'm kind of OCD, so if I have multiple windows in a large area, I'd spend too much resizing them until they were "just right".
Digg burial abuse seems to be overhyped. There are a lot of really bad stories on Digg, especially on the politics section.
For example, there's currently a story saying that MSNBC changed the question on a poll. OK, maybe it happened; but what's the source? Some dude posted a few screen shots on his blog. Correct or not, that story is possibly inaccurate because it presents no verifiable supporting evidence.
I'll stick by the TSA in this scenario. It's not that you KNEW that was your iPod stopping it from flushing. You might have dropped it somewhere in the aisle or somewhere else. Better safe than sorry I say.
In college, I carried my PDA everywhere, but mainly because it had alarms for all my classes. After breaking the screens on 3 of them, I decided there must be a cheaper solution.
I have a $15 durable cell phone that goes everywhere with me, and a Google Calendar account. It serves all the same basic calendar functions as a PDA, and will send you SMS alerts before appointments.
Also keep in mind that you (should!) have a laptop with you at all times at college, so you can "take notes" in class. Bejewled is much better on the big screen, or if your campus has wifi, get some unreal tournament going.
Thank you. I'm constantly surprised that people actually care about this.
It's such an amateur video with no real content, so who really cares who made it? Did anybody actually change their mind based on this garbage? There's no reason to be threatened by it or even give it the time of day. Pick something worthwhile to be upset about.
Even with this flaw, the Diebold machines are still no worse than a paper machine. So I pull a lever and my ballot goes into some box behind the machine. How do I know that's not really going into a trash can? Every election, boxes and boxes of ballots get left behind. The same could hold true if we had a paper trail on the diebolds. If somebody gets rid of the paper, we're still screwed.
Let's have the machine print a reciept that doesn't say who I voted for, but a unique transaction ID. After the election, I take my reciept home and plug the unique ID into vote.gov. If it says "you voted for the other guy", I'm going to call them up and scream fraud. But if my guy shows up, I know my vote made it where it was going. Now I burn the paper evidence to prevent the other guy from getting his hands on it, and calling fraud himself.
Saying they're entering your driver's license number is a little drastic. When I worked at kroger 2 years ago we just had to put in date of birth. Granted, laws in your state might be different, but it was probably your DOB going into the computer.
I've always thought the folowing would be a good system:
For high security stuff, verifying identity for loans etc:
- You talk to the bank, tell them you want the loan, etc.
- Bank calls government and says "hey, we need you to verify that this guy is."
- Government gives bank a transaction number, which they give to you.
- Government buildings (post office, police station) have biometric scanner monitored by a cop.
- Cop makes sure you're not carrying a severed finger or something.
- You enter your confirmation number and your password. Cop does the same.
- Machine sends a hash of your fingerprint and password to government, who compares it with the hash they have on file.
This system wouldn't work well for regular transactions like buying groceries, but for that we could introduce a second password. if that gets compromised, you just go through the first process to change that password. An even more complicated process if your main pass gets stolen.
This eliminates the following concerns:
1) Somebody spoofs your fingerprints. He still needs your password to do anything, and that cop will totally kick his ass.
2) Somebody hacks the database. All the have is the hash. They could fake the output of the device, but they'd need to pay off the on-duty cop, or steal his data too.
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The old NES game Blaster Master had a great bug that made the game a lot easier. If you shot an enemy, and paused right as your bullet was hitting him, it would continuously drain his health until the game was unpaused. Instant kill.
Be careful though, because the same thing happens to you if you're the one being hit.
Always listened to metal as a kid; I consider myself fairly smart. Word of advice to other kids though:
Lots of the dumb metalheads do drugs too. Stay out of that stuff. I saw too many smart kids turn into retards and almost did it myself.
"Now I was baffled. 'Records never came with any such restrictions,' I said." Last time I tried to play my record in a CD player.... that didn't go so well. Next time, RTFM before buying the stuff and see if it will play in your equipment or not.
I was a little perturbed when GTA: San Andreas brought out a black protagonist. Not because I'm racist or anything, but because the game had previously centered around white Mafiosos. A black character brought all sorts of racial stereotypes with him, which had to be incorporated in the game. I was afraid the game would involve more street-gang type crime, instead of the grandiose organized crime that you saw in the previous games. In the end, they did a good job of fusing the two together though.
I hated it when professors would mandate that you couldn't have any sources from "The Internet", or had to have so many that were from "real books". Get with the times people. Sure, you could argue that "The Internet" as a whole is not reliable because crackpots can post their own web page. But is "printed media" as a whole any better? It's about judging the validity of an individual source, but these idiots didn't realize that "The Internet" wasn't one big source. In the case of Wikipedia, however, I have to agree that it shouldn't be directly cited. It's a frequently changing page which will allow for some inaccuracies. While the overall community tries their best to moderate it, it's feasible that some BS might make its way out there just long enough for a student to cite it in his paper. Any good Wikipediaer will cite sources for the information he's putting up there, so the student might as well follow the link and quote the other source if it's reputable.
People are too eager to believe that the election was rigged, but they're simply outraged at the possibility that the exit polls could have been botched or rigged themselves.
When I applied for a job with the NSA, I pulled my credit report a few days later and there was some vague item on there that basically said "Federal Investigation". I hope it didn't get mistaken for a criminal investigation.
The big black dude is totally a Teal'c ripoff.
In general I agree with you, but I take exception to your statement that there's no such thing as a tailgater. It's a common phenomenon that some assclown gets in the left lane and drives 20mph, so a long line of cars forms behind him. If that's the case, DO NOT tailgate the guy in front of you unless you're second in line.
My general rule is that I make it obvious that I want to pass, then I wait for the guy to reach a spot. Once he has room to get in the right lane, I give him 5 seconds before either I tailgate him, or pass him on the right if I can. I shouldn't have to resort to either of those.
Also, if you're not the second guy in line, don't try to pass anybody on the right. I love it when the left lane is getting cock blocked and some idiot tries to fly around the right lane and squeeze his way in two cars down from where he was before. That makes the problem worse.
PassPet is a nifty looking extension that hasn't actually been developed. Would help with this problem, as you have to actually click a button to fill in your password.
I'm hoping people will start to realize this and things will calm down, but there will always be immature teenagers, and as long as the Internet gives them a voice as loud as responsible adults get, we'll see this kind of stuff.
The part we should be truly offended about is that this sort of thing works. People watch their local news, and say "gee, if Asian Reporter Trisha Takinowa says global warming is horseshit, it must be!" I don't see anything wrong with bias in the news, so long as all the facts are presented.
Best advice to students is to not do anything stupid that would prevent them from working for the government. Those jobs ain't getting outsourced anytime soon.
Signatures are just as worthless as click-through eulas are. It takes an expert to forge them, but it's easy to do once you have some training. We need to start digitally signing our important documents instead of relying on antiquated methods. We might as well pour hot wax on a document and stamp it. I've been thinking of coming up with an algorithm to write my signature differently depending on the date and time I'm signing it. Then again, I had the DMV reject my signature one time because it wasn't in cursive, so I doubt I'd get away with that plan.
I've always thought that some story-intensive games might make good movies. Games like Halo, Doom, and Mario just don't have a dynamic enough plot. But you might be able to do it with games like Deus Ex, or Metal Gear (which has enough cut scenes that it might as well be a movie).
Important thing with those would be to stay true to the storyline, and don't try to bring video game elements into it (like when Doom would do first-person view, Resident Evil had a boss fight).
A movie where Solid Snake and a partner have to accomplish some mission would be a decent spy movie, except it'd be hard to make it a standalone movie, since there's so much story in the games now.
I said it in 2000, I said it in 2002, I said it in 2004, and I'm saying it again in 2006. If the republicans win, I'm moving to Canada.
I've found a lot of use for dual screens at my work. There will be times when I'm reproducing some issue and need to tail several log files at once until I see what I like.
Lots of other times I'll be working with two documents. One per monitor.
I also code in one monitor, with specs/IMs in the other.
I think dual monitors are beneficial over one big monitor in this case because it allows me to compartmentalize various tasks. Also there's something about maximizing a window. I'm kind of OCD, so if I have multiple windows in a large area, I'd spend too much resizing them until they were "just right".
Digg burial abuse seems to be overhyped. There are a lot of really bad stories on Digg, especially on the politics section.
For example, there's currently a story saying that MSNBC changed the question on a poll. OK, maybe it happened; but what's the source? Some dude posted a few screen shots on his blog. Correct or not, that story is possibly inaccurate because it presents no verifiable supporting evidence.
I'll stick by the TSA in this scenario. It's not that you KNEW that was your iPod stopping it from flushing. You might have dropped it somewhere in the aisle or somewhere else. Better safe than sorry I say.
In college, I carried my PDA everywhere, but mainly because it had alarms for all my classes. After breaking the screens on 3 of them, I decided there must be a cheaper solution.
I have a $15 durable cell phone that goes everywhere with me, and a Google Calendar account. It serves all the same basic calendar functions as a PDA, and will send you SMS alerts before appointments.
Also keep in mind that you (should!) have a laptop with you at all times at college, so you can "take notes" in class. Bejewled is much better on the big screen, or if your campus has wifi, get some unreal tournament going.
Thank you. I'm constantly surprised that people actually care about this.
It's such an amateur video with no real content, so who really cares who made it? Did anybody actually change their mind based on this garbage? There's no reason to be threatened by it or even give it the time of day. Pick something worthwhile to be upset about.
I'd totally buy it if they just put in regular control buttons in the umbrella handle.
Even with this flaw, the Diebold machines are still no worse than a paper machine. So I pull a lever and my ballot goes into some box behind the machine. How do I know that's not really going into a trash can? Every election, boxes and boxes of ballots get left behind. The same could hold true if we had a paper trail on the diebolds. If somebody gets rid of the paper, we're still screwed. Let's have the machine print a reciept that doesn't say who I voted for, but a unique transaction ID. After the election, I take my reciept home and plug the unique ID into vote.gov. If it says "you voted for the other guy", I'm going to call them up and scream fraud. But if my guy shows up, I know my vote made it where it was going. Now I burn the paper evidence to prevent the other guy from getting his hands on it, and calling fraud himself.
Saying they're entering your driver's license number is a little drastic. When I worked at kroger 2 years ago we just had to put in date of birth. Granted, laws in your state might be different, but it was probably your DOB going into the computer.
I've always thought the folowing would be a good system:
."
For high security stuff, verifying identity for loans etc:
- You talk to the bank, tell them you want the loan, etc.
- Bank calls government and says "hey, we need you to verify that this guy is
- Government gives bank a transaction number, which they give to you.
- Government buildings (post office, police station) have biometric scanner monitored by a cop.
- Cop makes sure you're not carrying a severed finger or something.
- You enter your confirmation number and your password. Cop does the same.
- Machine sends a hash of your fingerprint and password to government, who compares it with the hash they have on file.
This system wouldn't work well for regular transactions like buying groceries, but for that we could introduce a second password. if that gets compromised, you just go through the first process to change that password. An even more complicated process if your main pass gets stolen.
This eliminates the following concerns:
1) Somebody spoofs your fingerprints. He still needs your password to do anything, and that cop will totally kick his ass.
2) Somebody hacks the database. All the have is the hash. They could fake the output of the device, but they'd need to pay off the on-duty cop, or steal his data too.
Did I miss anything?